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Waiting - a poem for Pi Day

Sunday, March 15, 2015 9:46

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There are young people with disabilities who are institutionalized because community living supports are still inadequate. This is a poem dedicated to them.

Waiting

It is in the waiting that his heart dies

not the paralysis ,

not the itch he can’t reach,

not the hunger he can’t feed,

not the dirt he can’t remove.

It is the arrogance of the staff,

who keep him waiting

while they play cards

their laughter sounding down the hall

then stand before him, demanding gratitude

that kills his spirit.

At times the ward is silent as he waits

to be fed,

to be washed,

to be turned,

to be scratched.

He plays with numbers in his head

Recalling the day he won the math award

When his teacher gave him a pin with the symbol Pi

he wore it all day

until his father said only girls wore pins

so he buried Pi under his socks.

When he was put into the nursing home,

he asked his mother to bring Pi to him

and pin it on the corkboard at the bottom of his bed

so he could always see Pi, the irrational number

the transcendental number

never ending, never repeating

Knowing that no matter how long the wait was

it could have been longer.

Knowing the wait will never be the same.

Perspective, he learned, was the answer to all of life’s problems.

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